Minimalistic Approach for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI): Open Vascular Vs. Fully Percutaneous Approach.

Background: Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common valvular heart disease in elderly people. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as a revolutionary treatment for elderly patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. The authors present the first experiences with transcatheter aortic valve implantation treatment in Macedonia and compare their findings in regard to differences between open vascular vs.

Benefit of routine preprocedural radial artery angiography in STEMI patients.

Aims: To assess the benefit of routine preprocedural radial artery (RA) angiography in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

Methods And Results: All consecutive STEMI patients, in the period from January 2010 until December 2016 were included in the study. Preprocedural radial artery angiography was performed in all patients since March 2011.

Transition Towards Transradial Approach Improves Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction PCI.

Introduction And Aim: Transradial (TRA) instead of transfemoral (TFA) approach strategy has been presented in research literature as superior access strategy especially for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). There is a paucity of registry-based data of outcomes from default TRA strategy compared to TFA.

Materials And Methods: All-comers STEMI PCI institutional Registry identified 1808 consecutive patients in time-frame of 40 months from 2007 to 2010, without making any exclusions.

Macedonia: coronary and structural heart interventions from 2010 to 2015.

The aim of this report is to describe invasive cardiology procedural practice in Macedonia during the period from 2010 to 2015. Details of all consecutive 39,899 patients who underwent cardiovascular, peripheral or structural heart procedures during the period from 2010 until 2015 were examined. Clinical and procedure characteristics, access site, procedural success and complications were analysed.